There are no reasons for even more escalating the war in Ukraine, in an interview with the Voice of America, the coordinator of strategic communications of the US National Security Council John Kirby.
“Prescribing to hear that Russia says that it is not interested in the exchange of nuclear blows. We hope that they actually think so because we agree that the nuclear war should not happen. It certainly cannot win”, – noted Kirby.
According to him, “there is no reason for an even greater escalation of the war in Ukraine. Too many Ukrainians have already been killed. Too many wounded, too many people left their homes and are forced to become refugees outside their native country.” Kirby believes that “this war could end today if Putin made the right decision.”
“… We are observing that Russian forces continue attempts to hold the occupied Ukrainian lands in the Donbass and in the south of Ukraine. The Russians continue to replenish their reserve, they have already called for more than 300 thousand reservists. Russia held a fictitious referendum to try to politically annexize the territory , which they cannot keep with the help of military force, and now they have introduced martial law there. They ask Iran and North Korea additional weapons, ”said Kirby.“ Therefore, we evaluate them by what they do, and not because What they say. “
According to Kirby, “Russia demonstrates all the signs that it wants to continue this war and kill innocent Ukrainians. And therefore the United States must do everything in our power and help Ukrainians protect themselves from these threats.”
The coordinator of the National Security Council believes that if Russia, when it speaks of the dangers of nuclear war, really thinks so, is a good sign. “But we all saw how the Russians first say something, and then, in the future, they make the opposite,” Kirby said. That is why, according to him, the United States “will continue to closely monitor the development of the situation.”
John Kirby noted that “the United States is very closely working with Ukraine, and almost every day discuss the state of Ukrainian forces, what they need at the moment, and what the United States can do to provide these needs.”